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Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, January 13, 2015

January 13, 2015420, Charlie Hebdo, Climate Change, Cops Gone Wild, Fox News, Free the Weed, Guns, Hacking, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Joe Pass, LGBT, Outer Space, ReligionHeadly Westerfield

Hello, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to Jazz guitarist Joe Pass. Here are some other Headlines Du Jour from yesteryear:

1830 – The Great fire of New Orleans, Louisiana begins.

1833 – President Andrew Jackson writes to Vice President Martin Van Buren expressing his opposition to South Carolina‘s defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis.

1840 – The steamship Lexington burns and sinks four miles off the coast of Long Island with the loss of 139 lives.

1869 – National convention of black leaders meets in Washington, D.C.

1893 – U.S. Marines land in Honolulu, Hawaii from the USS Boston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.

1898 – Émile Zola‘s J’accuse exposes the Dreyfus affair.

1910 – The first public radio broadcast takes place; a live performance of the opera Cavalleria rusticana is sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, New York.

1942 – Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car.

1960 – The Gulag system of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union is officially abolished.

1966 – Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member when he is appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

1968 – Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom State Prison

1978 – U.S. Food & Drug Administration requires all blood donations to be labeled “paid” or “volunteer” donors.

1990 – Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia.

1993 – Space Shuttle program: Endeavour heads for space for the third time as STS-54 launches from the Kennedy Space Center.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

Rising tensions between states over pot put pressure on Obama to act.

IN INNER SPACE:

Dogs Arrived in the Americas Only
10,000 Years Ago, Research Suggests

IN OUTER SPACE:

‘Bent time’ tips pulsar out of view

Mars rover Curiosity suggests life
once existed on the Red Planet

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Headlines Du Jour ► Thursday, January 8, 2015

January 8, 2015420, Charlie Hebdo, Climate Change, Cops Gone Wild, Elvis Presley, Free the Weed, GOP, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, LGBT, Outer Space, Racism, Religion, RepublicansHeadly Westerfield

Howdy, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to Elvis Presley, who helped kick start Rock and Roll. Among the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1697 – Last execution for blasphemy in Britain; of Thomas Aikenhead, student, at Edinburgh.

1790 – George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address in New York, New York.

1811 – An unsuccessful slave revolt is led by Charles Deslondes in St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana.

1815 – War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans – Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British.

1835 – The United States national debt is zero for the only time.

1867 – African American men are granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C.

1877 – Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle against the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain, Montana Territory.

1940 – World War II: Britain introduces food rationing.

1963 – Leonardo da Vinci‘s Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

1964 – President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a “War on Poverty” in the United States.

1973 – Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched.

1973 – Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.

1982 – Breakup of the Bell System: AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.

2002 – President George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act.

2011 – The attempted assassination of Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords and subsequent shooting in Casas Adobes, Arizona at a Safeway grocery store, for which Jared Lee Loughner is subsequently arrested, kills six people and wounds 13, including Giffords.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

CHARLIE HEBDO ATTACKS:

France mourns as manhunt for
suspects in militant attack continues

Charlie Hebdo: A Profile of
the Satirical French Newspaper

The war on laughter: What the Charlie Hebdo
attacks reveal about our thorny relationship with satire

Harry Shearer on The Dangerous Business of Satire

SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:

The new Congress is 80 percent white,
80 percent male and 92 percent Christian

Blacks far more likely to be
pulled over, but whites far more
likely to have contraband: study

The NYPD Officers Who
See Racial Bias in the NYPD

#BlackBrunch protests disrupt ‘white spaces,’
provoke gun threat from ex-NYPD cop

FBI looking for man regarding explosion
near Colorado Springs NAACP office

MORE OF THAT GOP OUTREACH:

Boehner punishes the Tea Party: Why
the speaker is finally seeking revenge

The speaker is removing rebellious House conservatives
from plum committee assignments — at long last

What’s Really Wrong With the GOP

Chris Christie: ‘These Philadelphia
Fans, They Are The Worst In America’

Chris Christie Pushed Port Authority To Give Contract To Jerry Jones’ Firm

IN LGBT NEWS:

Miami Beach renewal of vows ceremony
for same-sex couples attracts hundreds

South Florida gay couples marry
in early morning ceremonies

TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:

Climate-change denialism added to West Virginia science standards to appease coal-loving officials

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Catholic League: Paris Terrorism Victims
Have Themselves To Blame For Their Deaths

Demoted Catholic cardinal blames
“feminized” church for priest pedophilia

Archaeologists find possible
site of Jesus’s trial in Jerusalem

MORE EXCITING EPISODES OF COPS GONE WILD:

Cop Trying to Kill the Family Dog,
Kills Woman Instead, In Front of
her Husband and 4-year-old Son

Collier deputy demoted
for threatening residents

Boston Cop Allegedly Assaults Uber Driver,
Takes His Car, Then Assaults Driver Again

Massachusetts Law Enforcement Agencies Claim
Exemption from Public Records Law as Private Corporation